The 12th book from the eventful Arkane Series by the NYTimes and USA Today bestselling author J.F.Penn, Tomb of Relics is a journey through the darkness of religious relics black market and organ trafficking. A very odd but valid combination.
I was glad to meet again agents Morgan Sierra and Jake Timber, as usual on a mission to save the world from the danger of all kinds of religious extremism. This time, they are not only encountering dark characters trying to re-enact various macabre religious representations but they are also encountered a strange creature, a scarrier version of Dorian Gray.
As usual, J.F.Penn novels are very well documented, the contexts and mentions of facts and historical events being based on an extensive bibliography covering various domains: history, anthropology, psychology, history of religions, architecture.
From dangerous jewellers with killer instincts to former Balkan wars combatants and secret security units, Tomb of Relics is a short yet eventful story. The historical/background information is well balanced by the fictional story, full of spectacular twists and dramatic changes. The pace is alert, the reader is took on an emotionally drained adventure which ends maybe too fast. The brevity of the story acts in this case against as there are a couple of possible directions that are unfortunately abandonned. I would have love to find out more about many of the side characters and story details, including Zale Radan and the Breton Biomedical endeavours.
Tomb of Relics offers to the readers enough details to be read as an autonomous story, but continuing with the rest of the books from the series is a great way to spend the rest of the year.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered by the author in exchange for an honest review
No comments:
Post a Comment